Day Four

Day Four-Something in your life that gives you balance

My feet. No, just kidding...I'm way too clumsy for that joke.

Recently, I've been leaving the spirit of hermitude that I'd fallen into since...well, forever...little by little, I get out of my shell. I'm finding that even as an extreme introvert, sometimes getting out is nice. And not the type of getting out that involves lots of people and loud music. That's the best way to throw me off balance. But lately, I've been having study sessions with a friend. These study sessions are about 30 minutes of talking about the week's readings and about four hours of drinking wine and eating homemade hummus and denouncing postmodernism and neoliberalism. Often we compare cultural artifacts, as she's from Russia. We spent an entire night comparing the rhetoric of 90's music in Russia to 90's music here.
Dorky, I know. But for some reason, that's proving to be my saving grace this semester. It's amazing how much you can use a little companionship, even if you're used to being so solitary when the semester begins to get crazy. It helps me not to drown in my readings.
I hadn't realized how much of a loner I'd become. There was no balance. There was only me, on my own, doing my own thing. And while sometimes that's lovely, I realized that I needed that little bit of human companionship. This is proving to be the perfect amount of alone and with-people time for me. A few hours every week where I force myself out of the house, not thinking about work, just allowing myself time to create a space outside of my head.
It's amazing how much I didn't know I needed that.

So, in the spirit of 90's music....one of my favorite 80's bands doing 90's stuff....Blondie with "Maria"  (Lyrics)

And yes, I've seen Blondie in concert, and yes, they're as awesome in concert as you'd expect!

Also...my latest guest post over at Card Carrying Lesbian is causing quite a discussion....go check it out....I meant to stir the pot but not THAT much!